Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: My heart perceives nothing

day to day
summer at its peak in highland

[by Violet de Cristoforo]

A notation suggests that the poem was written when prisoners in the Tule Lake stockade were on a hunger strike.

from Los Angeles Times: Violet de Cristoforo, 90; California haiku poet sent to WWII internment camps

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